Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 2005 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 2005, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2005A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 2nd May 2005A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 3rd May 2005A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 4th May 2005State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 5th May 2005Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 6th May 2005A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 7th May 2005Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 8th May 2005A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 9th May 2005A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 10th May 2005State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 11th May 2005A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 12th May 2005What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 13th May 2005A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 14th May 2005Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 15th May 2005Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 16th May 2005Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 17th May 2005Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 18th May 2005Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 19th May 2005In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 20th May 2005A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 21st May 2005Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 22nd May 2005A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 23rd May 2005A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 24th May 2005Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 25th May 2005Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 26th May 2005A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 27th May 2005On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
- 28th May 2005In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
- 29th May 2005A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 30th May 2005A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 31st May 2005A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.